Catégorie : Civil Society

Linked with our presentation of Stella Cornelius – Australia.

The Sydney Peace Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which was created eight years ago within the University of Sydney. The Foundation aims to raise the agenda of peace with justice in the Australian community. Peace with justice is a way of thinking and acting which promotes non-violent solutions to every day problems and provides the foundation of a civil society.

The Sydney Peace Foundation:

selects and awards the Sydney Peace Prize;
develops corporate sector and community understanding of the value of peace with justice in diverse contexts and countries;
sponsors peace initiatives, particularly the work of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney;
teaches peace and conflict studies and creates jobs for young people in areas of peace research, conflict resolution and the promotion of human rights;
awards scholarships and internships in peace, human rights and conflict resolution.

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The World Association of Early Childhood Educators (AMEI-WAECE) will focus on « Education For Peace From Infancy » at their

First World Congress in Albacete, Spain, April 20-22, 2007.

Dr. Koichiro Matsuura, UNESCO General Director, affirmed that it is important that young minds are guided « to the virtues of tolerance, mutual understanding and peace, not only in action, but also in thought and expression・ …

The main objectives of the WORLD CONFERENCE: EARLY CHILDHOOD PEACE EDUCATION are:

• Establish Early, Initial or Preschool Education as the base and first link for all the educational systems. Only with early childhood education can we achieve a peaceful world.

• Highlight the stage of initial and preschool education as the best time to model a harmonious personality in children as well as to provide them with education in values as this is the time when they are shaped in children.

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Linked with our presentations of Paddy Walker – Cook Islands, and of Comments by Paddy Walker.

PPSAEWA Pan-Pacific and South-East Asian Women’s Association:

Its Bulletin of April 2006.

Event: 23rd Annual Conference, New Zealand, March 21 to 27, 2007. Location: Telstraclear Pacific Arena in South Auckland. (Manukau City).

In 1928, in Honolulu, a group of women with international concerns, hoping to promote peace through understanding and friendship, convened to establish the Pan Pacific Woman’s Association. Later, the name was changed to more accurately reflect the Pan Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association’s area of interest.

At the first International Conference, the primary activity was the exchange of national experience with the problems of women and children in and around the Pacific. Since 1930, international Conferences have been held approximately every three years, bringing women together for meetings, lectures, workshops, and cultural programmes concerned with women and families. Recent Conferences have been in the U.S.A. in 1981, Japan in 1984, and Australia in 1988. The XVII International Conference was held in Thailand in 1990 and was attended by 350 delegates from 22 countries in the Asia/Pacific region. By gracious invitation of Her Majesty Queen Mata’aho of Tonga, PPSEAWA held the XIX International Conference in August 1994 in Kuku’ Alofa, Tonga. The theme was: Women of Wisdom Are Pillars of Nations. There were 350 delegates from 21 countries of Asia and the Pacific. The XX conference was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 25-September 2, 1997.

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Linked with our presentations of Oronto Douglas – Nigeria, and of Nigeria’s Oil and the population, also of Environemental Rights Action ERA – Nigeria. Also with The World Bank’s Recipe for Climate Disaster.

The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam). It works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North/South relations.  Continuer la lecture de « SEEN – Sustainble Energy & Economic Network »

Linked with our presentations of Oronto Douglas – Nigeria, and of Nigeria’s Oil and the population, (a text and a video of Democracy Now!), and
SEEN – Sustainble Energy & Economic Network. Also with The World Bank’s Recipe for Climate Disaster.

ERA is bound together and guided by a philosophy which avoids moral ambiguity when approaching problems of human ecology. This philosophy is not a rigid dogma, but a guide based upon the seven beliefs described below.

ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
Article 24 of the African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights states that:

« All people shall have the right to (a) generally satisfactory environment favourable to their development. »
ERA believes that a respect for all forms of life is an essential foundation to human happiness. In other words, a genuine concern for humankind and our habitat depends upon a respect for other animals and their habitats, and upon recognition of the importance of diversity.
Humankind cannot achieve happiness in a degraded environment; living in harmony with other forms of life (as in some traditional relationships between people and their environment) is in itself a human right. Furthermore, every individual and responsible human being has an equal right to happiness, regardless of his or her wealth.

ALL ECOSYSTEMS ARE NOW HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS
This concept is central to the ERA philosophy.

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